for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give
you which you have not got, but there is much,
very much, that while I cannot give it, you can
take it. No heaven can come to us unless our
hearts find rest in today. TAKE HEAVEN.
No peace lies in the future whichis not hidden
in this present little instance. TAKE PEACE. The
gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet
within our reach is joy. TAKE JOY. Life is so
full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty......
that you will find earth, but cloaks your heaven.
Courage then to claim it, that is all! And so I
greet you with profound esteem and with the
prayer that for you, now and forever, the day
breaks and the shadows flee away
Fra Giovanni
